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19 APRIL, 2018 - 22:55   APRILHOLLOWAY  * ancient origins   Ashkenazi Jews are a Jewish ethnic group who have their earliest ancestors from the indigenous tribes of Israel…at least on one side of the family tree. A study published in 2013 in  Nature Communications  has shown their maternal lineage comes from a different, and possibly unexpected, source. The research shows  the origins of the matrilineal line for the Ashkenazi Jews comes from Europe. This goes against the common belief that Jewish people first arrived in central Europe after the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 and only began settling in Germany in the Medieval period. Ashkenazi Jews is the term used today to describe these Jewish people – individuals who built religiously-based communities centuries later in Central and Eastern Europe. One of the things they are recognized for is the use of Yiddish – a High German language written in the Hebrew alphabet and influenced by classical Heb...

  By:  Christopher Real Fairchild

  By  Taylor Gordon   |   November 18, 2014 Black voters are ditching years of  loyalty to the Democratic Party  in order to push for the kinds of changes the community really needs, especially when it comes to school choice. More often than not, Black children find themselves with little to no choice about what school they will attend. Private schools are costly and many urban public schools don’t receive the funding they need to help students thrive in the classroom and eventually in the labor market. Based on  the most recent midterm elections , Black voters have had enough of this. School choice has rocketed to the surface of Black voters’ concerns and caused many in the last election to vote for the Republican ticket despite years of Democratic affiliation. Black voters have been adamant about pushing for a solution to the lack of school choice for many Black children and when one Democratic candidate in Florida considered axing one solution for g...